Constantin Budeanu

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Constantin Budeanu (28 February 1886 – 27 February 1959) was a Romanian electrical engineer who contributed to the analysis of electric networks states and the SI system of units.

Life and work[]

He was born in Buzău. In 1903 he was admitted at the School of Bridges, Roads and Mines, obtaining his engineering diploma in 1909. He then studied electricity in Paris with a V. Adamachi scholarship.

Budeanu proposed the unit electric reactive power (the term var) and he introduced the concept of deformed power in electric networks.^[1]

Writings[]

• Puissances reactives et fictives 1927
• Sistemul general practic de mărimi și unitati (The General Practical System of Quantities and Units) 1957

Awards[]

He was awarded the by the communist authorities of Romania.

Notes[]

References[]

• (in Romanian) I.S. Antoniu Constantin Budeanu monograph, Romanian Academy's Publisher 1986

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